Minnesota Vikings Launch VR App On Rift/Gear, Coming To Go

There’s a wholly new solution to cheer in your favourite workforce this season. Or at the least there may be in the event you’re a Vikings fan.

The Minnesota Vikings have change into the primary NFL workforce to launch their very personal VR app, Vikings VR, developed in partnership with Zeality. Now out there free of charge on the Oculus Store, the app buries followers in 360-degree content material taken from matches on the workforce’s U.S. Bank Stadium. Impressively, the app options footage from each dwelling recreation the workforce has performed because it moved into the venue in 2016. There’s even footage of the stadium’s development.

While this may increasingly solely be a neat bonus for followers shut by, Vikings Executive Director of Digital Media and Innovation Scott Kegley causes it’s much more essential for these much less in a position to attend dwell matches. “We perceive solely a small proportion of our massive fan base is ready to attend a Vikings recreation or occasion,” Kegley stated in an announcement. “We wish to carry experiences to them, and immersive expertise is permitting us to try this.”

Whilst Vikings VR is already out there on the Oculus Rift and Gear VR, the workforce additionally confirmed that it will likely be launching on the Oculus Go standalone headset when it arrives a little bit afterward this 12 months. It’s one of many first apps to be confirmed for the headset. If you’re on the lookout for extra NFL VR goodness then it’s also possible to discover a devoted app for your entire league on most cell headsets.